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8.
PERSONAL FAILURE
15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do
not do what I want, but I do the very thing I
hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree
that the law is good. 17 But in fact it is no longer I
that do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I
know that nothing good dwells within me, that
is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I
cannot do it. 19 For I do not do the good I want,
but the evil I do not want is what I do. 20 Now if I
do what I do not want, it is no longer I that do it,
but sin that dwells within me.
--Romans 7

9.
PERSONAL FAILURE
15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not
do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.
16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the
law is good. 17 But in fact it is no longer I that do it,
but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that
nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I
can will what is right, but I cannot do it. 19 For I do
not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is
what I do. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no
longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
Romans 7

10.
PERSONAL FORGIVENESS
There is therefore now no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8.1

11.
Jesus
“I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Matthew 9.13

12.
“Without being forgiven,
released from the consequences of what we have done,
our capacity to act would, as it were,
be confined to one single deed
from which we could never recover;
we would remain the victims of its consequences forever.”
--Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

19.
INTERPERSONAL FAILURE & FORGIVENESS
23 So when you are offering your gift at the altar,
if you remember that your brother or sister has
something against you,
24 leave your gift there before the altar and go;
first be reconciled to your brother or sister,
and then come and offer your gift.
--Matthew 5

20.
Can you praise God if you’re fighting with a friend?
What does it feel like?
Do you think friendships have anything to do with God?

21.
SOCIAL FAILURE & FORGIVENESS
When disaster happens
people focus on their own survival
and often neglect others.

22.
9“The thing that you are doing is not good.
Should you not walk in the fear of our God, to
prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies? …
11 Restore to them, this very day,
their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and
their houses, and the interest on money, grain, wine,
and oil that you have been exacting from them.”
--Nehemiah 5

23.
FORGIVENESS
the only action that acts anew
God’s work and human work

24.
FORGIVENESS
a practice of giving,
in which you give yourself
to a new beginning

25.
How can you give yourself?
1) Write a note to someone:
•acknowledge failure in your relationship
•express your commitment to begin again
2) Commit a tough relationship to prayer
•picture the person’s face during The Lord’s Prayer

26.
Thoughts…Questions…
Reflections…
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